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Prince Andrew denies seeing any suspicious Epstein behaviour

Queen Elizabeth’s son says it was ‘mistake’ to meet disgraced US financier in 2010

Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 15:06Updated: Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 16:02

Britain’s Prince Andrew arrives by horse and carriage to Ascot on ladies day in June. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Britain’s Prince Andrew said on Saturday he never saw or suspected any suspicious behaviour during the time he spent with disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail cell earlier this month while being held on sex-trafficking charges.“At no stage during the limited time I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction,” the prince said in a statement.

But he said it was a “mistake” to meet Epstein after he left prison in 2010.

British media including the Daily Mail published a picture which it said showed Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth, waving goodbye to a woman from inside a Manhattan mansion owned by Epstein.–Reuters